<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If your time has any value at all, then Mblox will be your least expensive route (or another Neustar proxy).<div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Al Lougher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I couldn't find any information on Neustar's site regarding accessing their DB, and I certainly don't want to pay someone like Mblox 3-5cents per lookup. And I'm guessing accessing Neustar's DB is not going to be cheap anyway, does anyone know their costs?<br><br>Thanks<br><div>Alan<br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 7/31/08, Miles Scruggs <i><<a href="mailto:asterisk@wideideas.com">asterisk@wideideas.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Miles Scruggs <<a href="mailto:asterisk@wideideas.com">asterisk@wideideas.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service<br>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <<a href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:57 AM<br><br><div id="yiv585844240">You can port both ways, landline to wireless, and wireless to landline. So original blocks are now meaningless you have to do near realtime lookups against the Neustar DB.<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Miles</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2008, at 6:49 AM, Al Lougher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top">You are correct, I missed that. For some reason I thought portability only applied to wireless numbers, I didn't realize you could port from land line to wireless. Can that happen with all major US carriers or say just AT&T?<br><br>Thanks<br><div><br>Alan<br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 7/31/08, Kevin P. Fleming <i><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:kpfleming@digium.com">kpfleming@digium.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Kevin P. Fleming <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:kpfleming@digium.com">kpfleming@digium.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service<br>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:13 AM<br><br><pre>Al Lougher wrote:<br>> Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought Paul had shut his<br>> business down sometime ago otherwise that would<br> have been my first stop.<br>> I do know he had the data previously because I bought some data over a<br>> year ago. I seem to remember the carrier information was not 100%<br>> accurate, however determining the
carrier is not a priority, as long as<br>> it tells me it's wireless that's all that matters. It is my<br>> understanding carriers purchase blocks of numbers so really even if<br>> NPANXX lookup gives me the answer then that's all I need.<br><br>You missed the entire point of the previous messages in this thread; now<br>that the US has number portability, 'number blocks' are a thing of the<br>past. I have many friends who have ported previously-wireline numbers<br>onto wireless services, but if you go by the 'number blocks' those<br>numbers will appear to be wireline.<br><br>Depending on how accurate your 'wireless or wireline' query needs to be<br>(and the potential ramifications of it being wrong, say, if you<br> are<br>telemarketing) this could make a big difference.<br><br>-- <br>Kevin P. Fleming<br>Director of Software Technologies<br>Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience"
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